Saturday, August 29, 2009

What about TWO?

I am seeing a surge in teenagers, as they get older toward mid-late college, using two Facebook pages. One is their "professional" page - for family or job prospects. Yes, family is included, they often consider a family broadcast a hindrance to their privacy! The other is their regular page complete with beer pong and weekend parties.

Though beer pong rarely makes it into my broadcasts, I have no less than four social networks (education PLN, classroom use, music and arts, and personal).

I was making a joke about the beer pong :) although probably it's not far from reality!

Personal - Facebook (1 page)

Education - blog, including both education and some other technology

Twitter - professional/school, business, personal

There are various tools now which allow us to post one time (like ping.fm and some various clients like Seesmic or some blackberry/iPhone apps) and the post is disseminated to many networks at once, but I rarely want to comment or post pictures of my kids and family vacations on my professional website!

Also, if you post on Twitter and use the hashtag #FB within the post, it will go on your Facebook page as a status update. But to me, the point of having them separate is to keep them separate.

So 1 Facebook, 1 blog, and 3 Twitter accounts, not much fun that anyone can see if they can't see my Facebook page (and I have privacy settings on that one).

I think that's great to see teenagers taking this kind of stance to their online personas. I think it is good to seperate out your networks, both for privacy reasons and to keep your contributions to each network focused and relevant.

I have several feeds myself, for personal, education/professional and my music and DJing work. People on my music network are not so interested in my education work and visa versa- although there is unnevitably some crossover.

It's all about choosing the right tone for the context of your communications, and that judgement is really essential for teenagers and children to learn.

The only one that crosses over for me is Twitter, and that's more for what is coming in rather than what I'm putting out. Knowing I have many colleagues on my Twitter feed means I tend to avoid mentioning my weekend beer pong. ;)

Facebook for me is a small network mostly family and a few close friends. I focus on Ning for my bigger network.

3 blogs - 1 professional, 1 travel, 1 family food (Jewish Catholic food brings a family together)1 Facebook - personal1 Twitter- personal and professional blended1 Plurk - professional - haven't been there in a while, it was feeling like the teachers' lounge. My karma there has crashed.1 Ning - several networksLinked In - but I rarely visit.

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